Political Philosophy Test

If you watch the news I'm sure you've been told that if you believe this you're a liberal or if you believe that you're a conservative. I'm sure you've read book that tell you if you believe this you're a libertarian or if you believe that you're an authoritarian. But forget all that because you're about to take a definitive test that will give you a 100% accurate reading of your political philosophy based on your answers to these carefully chosen questions. Enjoy!

Completed 0 of 10 questions.

1

What do you consider to be a fair tax rate for the rich?

Over 90%

60% to 90%

At least 40%

20% to 40%

Under 20%

a FAIR tax rate? lol

2

What's your view on gun control?

Military personnel and police officers should be fully armed, but private citizens should not be permitted to own or carry any kind of firearm.

Guns should be totally banned. I don't even like police officers carrying weapons.

Gun control should definitely be stricter, but certain people like farmers and sport shooters should be allowed to have guns if they acquire a licence.

Military and police officers, farmers, hunters and shooters should be allowed to own guns. But anybody else who doesn't have a legitimate reason ("self-defence" is NOT a legitimate reason) should be restricted from owning or carrying guns.

People have a right to defend themselves and their property. Fair enough, restrict ex-cons and the mentally unstable from owning guns, but leave the rest of us alone.

We need the right to own guns, not just to protect ourselves and our property, but to defend ourselves from tyranny. That was the original argument for the right to bear arms and I stand by it.

3

What should be the government's policy on drugs?

All drugs should be heavily monitored and regulated. Drugs deemed harmful should be heavily restricted. This includes recreational drugs.

Medicinal drugs should be heavily monitored and regulated. But certain recreational drugs like marijuana should be permitted as long it receives the same monitoring and is subject to the same regulations as other medicinal drugs.

We need a government agency to make sure that drugs being sold over the counter are safe. But I think the government goes too far in restricting drugs they call "harmful", especially drugs used primarily for recreation such as marijuana.

Drugs can be very helpful, but they can also be very harmful. We need a government agency to make sure harmful drugs don't enter the market. Recreational drugs should also be restricted as their cause harm, however the government should relax their punishments on people found with small quantities of illicit drugs.

Drugs aren't for recreation, they're for health. The government should spend less time monitoring drugs that are made for the purpose of improving our health, and more time monitoring the illegal trade and use of drugs that are made for the purpose of getting high.

What an individual choses to put into his or her body is their own choice. If they choose to ignore all the bad publicity harmful drugs such as oxycontin, propofol, heroin etc. can do to them, then that's their fault. The government should not engage in the pointless pursuit of trying to stop them.

4

What should be the government's role in the abortion?

Government should ban all abortions and the facilities that provide them.

Government should restrict abortions except in extreme cases or if the health of the mother is at risk.

Government should permit abortions and the establishment of facilities that provide them.

Government should not only permit abortions, but they should fund facilities that provide this important health service.

The government should have no involvement in this purely private matter between the woman, her close friends and family, and her doctor.

The only abortions that should be permitted are state-ordered abortions to battle over-population and to prevent the birth of disabled or defected babies.

5

What about gay marriage?

Any number of consenting adults not blood-related should be able to obtain a marriage license regardless of gender.

I'm all for gay couples getting civil unions that give them the same rights and protections as married couples, but I'm not sure marriage should be redefined to include them.

Gay couples should be allowed to obtain a marriage license that legally recognises them as a married couple, not just a de facto relationship.

Marriage is a religious institution between one man and one woman. Gay couples should not be allowed to legally marry or receive the same legal recognition as marries couples.

Marriage licenses are a creation of the state and a violation of the separation of church and state. The government should only recognise civil unions where the gender is not disclosed so it could include gay couples or straight couples.

Marriage should not be permitted because it encourages the creation of a family unit which makes people more self-reliant and less involved in the collective.

6

How should the government treat immigration?

Our borders should be closed off and heavily patrolled. People entering and leaving the country should be subjected to security checks, health checks, immigration tests etc.

We need to take strong measures to protect our borders such as armed guards or fences. Illegal immigrants already in the country need to be either naturalised or deported to their country of origin.

We should take appropriate measures to prevent illegal immigration, but there's no need to prevent or deter legal immigration. Immigrations often contribute positively to our economy and culture.

This country is a melting-pot where immigration should be encouraged. There's no need to hunt down illegal immigrants already in the country. Instead we should provide easier paths to citizenship.

Instead of closing ourselves off and becoming more isolationists, we need to become more international and encourage of people entering and leaving the country freely.

People should be free to enter or leave a country without having to justify it to the authorities. If we didn't have such a big welfare state it would be of no concern whether someone was a legal, tax-paying citizen or not.

7

What should be government's role in education?

Government should provide all levels of education, from pre-school to tertiary education, free to the public.

Government should provide free primary and secondary schools as well as grants so high school graduates can continue their studies at a tertiary level.

Government should at least provide free primary and secondary schools as a competitive alternative to private schooling.

There should be a free public school option to provide education for the poor, but private schooling should be encouraged through programs such as school vouchers.

State-provided education can lead to indoctrination rather than education, therefore government should leave education up to private providers.

The only education that the public should receive should be from the state.

8

What about health care?

The government should be the only provider of health-care services. Private services cannot be permitted.

We need a universal health care system provided by the government to ensure that everybody can receive health care. We can no longer allow private providers to make a profit off people getting sick and staying sick.

The government should provide a public option to compete with private health insurance so that the poor and uninsured can get health care.

While the government should do more to lower costs and ensure that everybody can get insured, a state health service will be too costly and may lead to many unintended consequences. People who already have insurance are mostly happy with it and we can't mess with that.

Health care is doing fine in the private sector and it would benefit more form less government involvement than more. What the government can do if anything is reform tort laws and repeal regulations such as the restrictions on people buying insurance interstate.

The problem isn't that not enough people are insured, it's that we insure health care costs to begin with. Insurance destroys market forces that make people shop for value and choose the best option for them. We need a health care system that's free of third-party involvement and operates on a market-based system where the consumer themselves has more power and control.

9

How should the government tackle climate change?

With extensive environmental controls, taxes on emissions and some form of population control.

We need to join with the rest of the world in setting targets for reducing carbon emissions and slowing the growth of population.

We need tougher environmental regulations to reduce pollution. The government should also provide tax incentives to green energy companies and provide things like clean fuel subsidies.

While we do need to do something to combat climate change, I don't want to have to change my quality of life too much. If everybody makes small sacrifices, maybe that will be enough.

Environmental regulations are too big a burden on business. I don't believe climate change is a big enough problem to risk changing or losing our quality of life.

The best incentive to protect the environment is if you own it. People protect their own land. We need more private ownership of the land and resources. Environmental regulations won't work and will only hurt us economically.

10

What's the best way to fight terrorism?

We need to send our military in to overthrow governments that fund terrorism groups and establish a democratic system where a terrorist organisation cannot gain any sort of significant power.

We should send our policing agencies to the areas where terrorist are known to be operating and work with local police to track down the terrorists themselves so they can be held accountable for their actions.

We encourage terrorism through our aggressive foreign policy. We should adopt a more internationally-friendly foreign policy based on diplomacy rather than militarism.

If we didn't spend so much money on welfare and warfare, we could spend more money on intelligence services that monitor terrorist activity and prevents it before it actually happens. And if it does happen we need to make finding those responsible and making them accountable our only foreign policy.

These terrorists come from countries where young men have no other option but join a terrorist organisation. We need to provide foreign aid to these countries so they can build schools and an industry where these people can go to work instead of going terrorist groups.

We need a strong defensive that intimidates terrorists from attacking us domestically. And if we do we need to launch a strong offensive on them, the country that harboured them and anyone in this country who may have enabled this terrorist act.